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from Dinosaurs and Robots:

Lazily flipping through a free magazine, an article on Kobe beef caught my attention. Aside from the secrecy that shrounds the raising of these prized Japanese cows (a purported diet of beer and sake, daily massages to encourage maximum fat marbling) I was even more fascinated by this bit of info:

The Japanese take this breeding so seriously that their beef arrives at restaurants with a copy of the cow’s birth certificate, bearing the animal’s nose-print

I immediately wanted to see one of these certificates with the nose-print. It seems like a gesture of reverence as much as a validation of authenticity. Luckily, I found an example on mwoon’s flickr stream.

Link

Lego meets Origami! awesome stuff!

“Stripper-stretch marks and desert-devil-dust… Mexican-Men and Tequila-Worm-Lust… jiggling breasts and White Men roars, sticky palms and sticky floors… booze-boars and bottle-breath, broken-teeth smiles and flailing-fist-death…”

via American Suburb X

I’m becoming a film developing nerd, learning about using isopropyl to dry negatives, releasing the patterson tank lid after each agitation to release pressure (and stop leaks), and spreading out the development process to increase contrast. Man film rules.